At the 2026 American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) Annual Meeting, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief, Joel Dunning, a cardiothoracic surgeon at James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough, UK, spoke with Dr. Philip Linden, a thoracic surgeon at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, USA. Their conversation focused on the newly released AATS expert consensus document on the evaluation and management of N2+ non-small cell lung cancer.